Mike Jones – CEO Science

Mike Jones is CEO of Science, a media and commerce company which focuses on portfolio company growth and transformation, expanding reach from early-stage companies to include to larger and later-stage assets.  A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful Internet company in college and since then, has founded, built and sold numerous online and mobile businesses.  His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency resulting in over $500M in successful investor outcomes.

Prior to Science, Mike served as the CEO of Myspace.  In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank.  During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry.  This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination, then selling the business to SpecificMedia on behalf of NewsCorp.

Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations.  A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. Mike is actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member. As an active early stage investor, Mike has personally invested in over 30 startup businesses.  Mike earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Business and Marketing from the University of Oregon.

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